Earlier this month, we encouraged our constituents to comment on a petition to designate the North Fork of the Smith River as an Outstanding Resource Water with the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission.
Such a designation would protect the Smith from mining taking place anywhere in the Smith River watershed, including existing claims like the one by Red Flat Mining Corporation highlighted in our documentary film Eternally Wild.
The Oregon Environmental Quality Commission voted 3-1 in favor of initiating a rule making process that moves the North Fork of the Smith River and its tributaries in Curry County, Oregon a step closer to designation as an Outstanding Resource Waters.
To read more about the designation in the Del Norte Triplicate, click here.
